My Dvds I burn have glitches

[Jahnsart]

everytime I attempt to burn a DVD it Will invariably have an error on it. it is never the in the same spot however, there will be a place where it stops and will restart the movie. I turned everything off on my PC Internet all other running programs, the Virus scan and screen savers.

I have a P 4 3.01 1 gig memory Xp Pro Sp2 Direct X 9 TSST S183L DVD
Radeon Sapphire 9600 128 250 gig HD Creative X-FI Sound Card

Video Studio Ver 11 with the latest update

All my drivers are as updated as they can be.

I burned the first 2 from edit mode then the rest after I saved the whole movie to my Hard Drive. The movie plays all the way through when I view it, it just glitches when I burn it to DVD

Thanks.

Jahn

[Ken Berry]

While some people will say it does not really matter what speed you burn a DVD at, many of us argue from experience that it seems to be better to use a (much) lower speed than the rated maximum speed of the disc. In other words, if you are using DVD blank discs rated to play at 20x, then I suggest you reduce your burning speed to, say, 8x. I tend to use 12x or 8x blanks, and never burn my video DVDs at higher than 4x speed. So try that.

There are of course various other reasons why home made DVDs may not play on some DVD players. Many of the more expensive brand name DVD players are notorious for being just plain picky about what they will play. Some don't like particular brands of disc, some don't like the colour of the dye used on the disc, some don't like +R, some don't like -R ... the list goes on.

Wide experience on this Board suggests that many of the very cheap generic players imported from China and South Korea, on the other hand, seem happy to play just about anything round and silver put into them.

But burning speed is often a common factor, as I have already said.

[Devil]

I agree with Ken but add that glitches on playback of DVD¡ÓR/RW are most commonly caused by the combined video and audio bitrates being set too high. Try MPEG-2 encoding a project at 6000 kbit/s CBR video and 192 kbit/s Dolby Digital (AC-3) 2/0 audio. If that plays glitch-free, you have your answer. You can then juggle with your settings, if you wish.

[Jahnsart]

I appreciate the advice I will readjust the settings for slower burning and readjust the bitrates and let you all know.

Thanks Again,

Jahn

[Jahnsart]

Hey You all,

I just did as you suggested, and now for the first time I get the message"

Power Calibration Failed 534: 2147216295:0"

Do you have any clues as to what this means?

Thanks,

Jahn

[sjj1805]

Please view:
DVD Burning / Playback issues

Are all of the discs from the same batch, sometimes you can get a faulty batch of discs. Try looking at the surface of the disc by holding it at an angle and looking across the disc towards a light source. It should appear even and shiny all over with no blemishes.

[Ken Berry]

A power calibration error is not associated with Video Studio, but is, to the contrary, an indication that something is going wrong with your DVD burner. At the lesser end of the scale, it could indicate that the laser is getting a bit dirty. At the other end, however, it could be an indication that the whole burner is failing or has actually failed.

I am not sure what to suggest apart from seeing whether you can clean the laser lens (there are various solutions available for that, though you would need to buy something e.g. a disc with a small brush on it on which you squeeze a (provided) cleaning liquid and which you run as you would a normal CD/DVD in the burner drive for a few seconds. Or you might need to consider buying a whole new burner. Luckily these days they are quite cheap ($40 or less) and normally pretty easy to install.

With some brands, or even specific models within a brand, however, note that sometimes they can be picky about whether they will work as master or slave or on primary or secondary channels......

[2Dogs]

I have a Samsung 183L. Yours is an "OEM" version. Burners can be picky with blank media - but the Samsung seems to write very well to Taiyo Yuden 8x DVD-R. You can find them online for about the same price as discounted mediocre discs in stores.

You can use a program such as CD-DVD Speed to check the disc burn quality - use the "benchmark" test, which will try to read from the disc. The resulting graph should be a smooth curve - any sudden dips will indicate a read problem.

[DVDDoug]

Here's the link to Nero CD-DVD Speed (FREE!!!).

I just did as you suggested, and now for the first time I get the message"

Power Calibration Failed 534: 2147216295:0"

Before it starts burning data the driver/firmware does a little test-burn to match the laser-power to the disc. From that message, you can't tell if it's the burner going bad, a bad blank disc, or a burner & disc that don't work well together.

First, I suggest you try a different brand of blank disc (and burn at 4X speed.)

From what you have told us, I do think you are getting "bad-burns", which could be caused by a bad burner, a bad disc, or brand/batch that the burner doesn't "like", or burning a too-high of a speed. CD-DVD Speed will help to confirm that. (It won't tell you why you have a bad-burn.) I've started testing all of my discs with this program... It's faster than watching the entire program looking for glitches.

Another quick-test is to drag the VIDEO_TS folder from the DVD to a temorary folder on yoru hard drive. If Windows can't copy the files, then you have a bad-burn.

These tests will not tell you if there is a problem with the MPEG encoding, or if your stand-alone player doesn't "like" the DVD format, brand, or batch.

[xaci]

Have you tried to update your burner firmware?
What happen when you burn other stuffs? Do you get an error as well or is it just random?
Anyway, try to use different supports brand.

Alessandro.